Let's write a Decemberists song together

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Rules:

-one line at a time, preferably following some kind of rhyme scheme
-please signify if you are starting the chorus
-go heavy on the three, four and five-syllable words, nautical terms, and references to faraway sounding places and enchantment.

for some inspiration:

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/gloss.htm#R

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll start:

A sturdy whaler ran aground off Nova Scotia

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Hint: Meloy loves words that fit into an anapestic meter, such as pantaloon, petticoat, ballyhoo, parallax, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh yeah, true.

Also, story of song does not have to make sense.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

In his petticoat and pantaloons he caused quite a ballyhoo?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

on on this whaling vessel there were four succulent lasses, with hair afire from a phoenix's breathe

the sea did swallow their labias whole.

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

A sturdy whaler ran aground off Nova Scotia

Where squall reigned thwartships quartering sea

― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost, obv.

― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

A sturdy whaler ran aground off Nova Scotia
Where squall reigned thwartships quartering sea

a stalwart stowaway from Estonia

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

uh, I guess that doesn't really fit the meter

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

someone fix it I have to go.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

A sturdy whaler ran aground off Nova Scotia
Where squall reigned thwartships quartering sea

A furlong more'd have put her in the ocean

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

last post: how about "kept" in place of "put"

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Never more will she cross the Sargasso deep

― novamax (novamax), Thursday, 5 October 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

We started doing this in a different Decemberists thread. And I think it's gone off the rails a bit. Can we start over? I want to play.

I suggest pilfering the rhyme scheme from the barrel-scraping Mariner's Revenge Song:

I am a cavalier
With countenance severe
I sit astride my able steed

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(I have a habit of writing Decemberists songs, thoguh)

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 6 October 2006 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

filthy habit

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 6 October 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

A flexen haired goddess in jodhpurs and hemp..

(fit it in, wherever)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 6 October 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

She clung fast to the mizzenmast as the pederast made a pass

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

O where were you layabouts when t'other lyrics thread went aground?

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 6 October 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

filthy habit

I know, I'm trying to quit.

And dammit, you can't play if you're not going to stay in meter!

Ahem:

I am a cavalier
With countenance severe
Limbs all astride my able steed

Clad in hauberk and chausses
Near the fields of Poitiers
I proudly hold the fleur-de-lis

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 6 October 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i never thought i could hate anything more than real decemberists lyrics.

― a|ex (Pareene), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a success, then!

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"..i'll go to the first-aid tent and tell them to plug in ye olde stomache pumpe..."

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 6 October 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Hint: Meloy loves words that fit into an anapestic meter, such as pantaloon, petticoat, ballyhoo, parallax, etc.

normally, i wouldn't be such a geek about this. but if we're trying to get our meloy on, i'd note that an anapest goes unstressed, unstressed, stressed. those words are all dactyls.

― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link

but if we're trying to get our meloy on, i'd note that an anapest goes unstressed, unstressed, stressed. those words are all dactyls.

Indeed.

No one wanted to finish my Cavalier's Battle Song :(

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 7 October 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

No one wanted to finish my Cavalier's Battle Song :(

it's just too good...

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Saturday, 7 October 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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